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"The house in Silverlake was dark, its windows as empty as a dead man's eyes."
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"The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter."
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''I never saw any of them again — except the cops. No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them."
''I never saw any of them again — except the cops. No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them."From "The Long Goodbye", by Raymond Chandler.Raymond Chandler was a seminal figure in the develo...
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